Collecting certain parts only

JudgeChuck

Switchfoot55 said:

Just out of curiosity, where do the blue and med-blue appear? BL doesn't seem to show they ever came out in sets. 

I'm still cutting teeth in this whole AFOL deal, so bare with me if that's a dumb question!

It's not dumb at all (I hope! I asked the same question ;-) ). We discussed this above and the consensus is that they are test parts and never were in any sets.

Switchfoot55

^ Thanks for the reassurance of my question asking!

I assume that goes for some of the other rare colors too then? Interesting. I guess I won't be feverishly watching second hand stores for them then!

JudgeChuck

Pretty much, I think.

There are some coloured parts that are rare because they only appeared in one or two sets years ago. The lighter of the two yellow bicycles is a good example of this, as it only appeared in #6420.

The really, really rare coloured parts are all likely to be test parts.

Rainstorm26

AllBrick said:

Ahem...

Brickbank has purple gems....but I don't think there is such a thing as a 2x9 white plate :(

VorpalRyu

@Switchfoot55, some parts can turn up in colours not released in any sets, particularly some European Bricklink sellers seem to have great luck in scoring these parts. Because of the rarity, expect to pay a bit more than for the usual part in standard colours, though some times you can get lucky & sellers will only be asking marginally more...

Bobflip

I think I'm wondering more about the details of how. I've seen a few people say 'oh they "find their way out" of the factories, but you also get the impression that TLC are really on it with their security. Does someone just stick a few in their pocket, knowingly risking their job, and LEGO say "Oh, the trans-red bike count is down 5 today? Nothing unusual about that!"

Speedman29

JudgeChuck said:

Of the three rare, but not ultra-rare (Blue, Medium Blue, Light Pink, Pink, Bright Light Blue and Transparent Red) ones, the Black and Dark Pink ones are relatively cheap (I picked them up for €3.50 and €4.98, both used but in very good condition), but the Yellow one is fairly expensive, as ones in good condition go for £12+. I found one in great condition for €13.50, which is pretty good, I think, given the range of prices on BL.

Got red, yellow/orange and medium azure. Green, black, pink and white are all cheap enough. I've found a yellow one, complete in its set for £4, Taken a punt as the photo shows it to be mint. Lets wait and see!

VorpalRyu

@Bobflip, I think they do allow some to end up with these sellers, I know at least the rare part I needed for my version of Green Goblin's glider, 2x2 Trapezoid Flag in LBG got to the seller I bought them off by legitimate means. I suspect some of these parts end up in PAB walls of Lego store in that neck of the woods.

Fauch

Rainstorm26 said:

AllBrick said:

Ahem...

Brickbank has purple gems....but I don't think there is such a thing as a 2x9 white plate :(

I have a trans neon green gem in ninja surprise. yeah, it's an old set from when gems first appeared.

Istokg

Probably my favorite coloured theme was the 1957-67 1:87 scale LEGO cast cars.  The first of these was also the most varied (up to 40 different color variations) and that was the #260/#261 VW Beetles.  These plastic with metal wheel Matchbox type cars were produced for the 1955-66 Town Plan System.  And all of these appear to be spray painted.... so that makes for a large number of color variations.

But my favorites are the metallic colors.  Here the VW Beetles come in metallic bronze, metallic gold, metallic light gold, metallic silver, metallic blue and metallic green.  While all of these metallic colors are rare, I believe the metallic green was the rarest.




Image from my  Swiss LEGO collector:  Pascal.
New image for my collectors guide.

Speedman29

Started my first "collection" I had the red, orange/yellow and med azur already. Green came the other day in a BL order and the original yellow is an eBay bargain that came with a few postal bits for £4!

DeMontes

a flock of birds....
 

DeMontes

Ooops one flew back home after a trip to the 'must be sorted at some point' box...ahem....




Red, Medium Green, Dark Grey, Yellow, Medium Blue, DBG, Pink.

Brown and Black are still in flight somewhere....

Fauch

didn't know about a medium green color, from where does it come?

DeMontes

@Fauchit It's a retired Belville colour. 'Colour King' Ryan Howerter explains here: https://flic.kr/p/owvgi9

JudgeChuck

"I will not start collecting parrots, I will not start collecting parrots..."

;-)

@DeMontes Make sure you show us the full collection when Brown and Black turn up!

:-)

DeMontes

you WILL collect parrots because they look soooo pretty ;-)

JudgeChuck

DeMontes said:

you WILL collect parrots because they look soooo pretty ;-)

Hehe.

You haven't got the multi-coloured one in your collection, so best sort that out quick! ;-)

http://brickset.com/parts/4540070

Bumblepants

I bought a ton of somewhat reasonably priced Medium Green parts when I found out that was a thing a few months ago. My med green pharmacy will go great next to my sand red apt. I really like obscure colors.

DeMontes

@JudgeChuck ; haha, I class the multicoloured ones as 'messy' and did not want to add them to the monochrome collection ;-)

Fauch

there are quite a lot of obscure colors. at least to me.

JudgeChuck

DeMontes said:

@JudgeChuck ; haha, I class the multicoloured ones as 'messy' and did not want to add them to the monochrome collection ;-)

Fair enough, but I quite like the multi-coloured one... It looks just that little bit more "real parrot"-ish to me... :-)

dutchlegofan50

Got tangled in an endless quote which I can't remove.  Only way to clear this is to post. Sorry!

Bumblepants

dutchlegofan50 said:

Got tangled in an endless quote which I can't remove.  Only way to clear this is to post. Sorry!

Backspace everything then click on the quote button again and it should go away. 

AllBrick

JudgeChuck said:

DeMontes said:

@JudgeChuck ; haha, I class the multicoloured ones as 'messy' and did not want to add them to the monochrome collection ;-)

Fair enough, but I quite like the multi-coloured one... It looks just that little bit more "real parrot"-ish to me... :-)

More so than this one?

DeMontes

Strictly speaking LEGO calls them Birds not parrots...the blue and yellow in the new Modular Assembly Square is on my list...

steinbrique

DeMontes said:

you WILL collect parrots because they look soooo pretty ;-)

I fully agree with that and then looking for them on Bricklink you will be Buying Spider , Owl  and every other pieces in monochrome you could find interesting ( all of THEM...)

DeMontes

@steinbrique my black bird arrived today...I've completed the monochrome birds yay

JudgeChuck

AllBrick said:

JudgeChuck said:

DeMontes said:

@JudgeChuck ; haha, I class the multicoloured ones as 'messy' and did not want to add them to the monochrome collection ;-)

Fair enough, but I quite like the multi-coloured one... It looks just that little bit more "real parrot"-ish to me... :-)

More so than this one?

That's a nice one as well. :-)

DeMontes

Which flavour? 

AllBrick

The colours wanted list for the bird on BL is fun. Just imagine.

Quite gutted that the new colour bird in assembly square is actually a redesign.

BigOnBricks

I am sorry I found this thread!! :)  I love the idea of some of these collections especially the 2x4 brick and bicycles.  I just placed a big order to get me started on both. 

DeMontes

Don't be sorry @BigOnBricks it's an infectious disease haha!

DeMontes

All the birds..

DeMontes

Anyone for some salmon ice cream, new flavour

DeMontes

Megaphones or old school space ray guns...

DeMontes

Hairbrushes...

bandit778

How long before someone collects Batman cowls due to all the new colours?

Switchfoot55

@DeMontes I love your collections. It inspires me to want to do the same...though my wife may not be too pleased with it. I think they're fun, simple, yet beautiful collections!

The_Mad_Vulcan

DeMontes said:

Megaphones or old school space ray guns...

Not sure which surprised me more: the existence of a salmon colored ray gun, or the lack of a green one. 

DeMontes

Ooo green would be nice.

AllBrick

Switchfoot55 said:

@DeMontes I love your collections. It inspires me to want to do the same...though my wife may not be too pleased with it. I think they're fun, simple, yet beautiful collections!

I'm sure your wife won't mind too much, they take no space and, like you said, fun, simple and beautiful. 
Problem is, they're easy to start and hard to finish. 
Then there is finding the time to gather everything together and photograph them. I still need to post pics of my bicycle collection and others, just not enough hours in a day.

@DeMontes - You seem to be taking things to another level, my brain hurts.

Shib

The_Mad_Vulcan said:

DeMontes said:

Megaphones or old school space ray guns...

Not sure which surprised me more: the existence of a salmon colored ray gun, or the lack of a green one. 

I really thought #7595 had one but apparently not, every possible army themed accessory but the megaphone in green!

DeMontes

AllBrick said:

@DeMontes - You seem to be taking things to another level, my brain hurts.

I've just been doing a little sorting of my unsorted box(es) and thought I'd take a quick photo as i think the lineups are pretty haha!

andhe

The_Mad_Vulcan said:

DeMontes said:

Megaphones or old school space ray guns...

Not sure which surprised me more: the existence of a salmon colored ray gun, or the lack of a green one. 

It appears it does, but just as an unrelased or prototype colour (hence the price).

http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=4349&name=Minifig, Utensil Loudhailer / Megaphone / SW Blaster&category=[Minifig, Utensil]#T=C

Tan and brown as well. I was imagining the the green would have been in the toy story army men set.

SprinkleOtter

DeMontes said:

Megaphones or old school space ray guns...

You missed the Simpsons one...

DeMontes

@SprinkleOtterwell strictly speaking I omitted it as it is not monochrome but lbg and orange. I have it but I chose not to add it to my line up :-)

DeMontes

@SprinkleOtter I missed the brown one ;-)

Bobflip

Ok, looks great, but the black one pointing in the other direction is bothering my pop-OCD tendencies!

CM4S

MattsWhat said:

@JudgeChuck @SprinkleOtter @AllBrick
It looks like the yellow flag is just older than all the others.  Bright yellow flags have only appeared in two sets since 2010 - hogwarts castle game #3862 being the obvious one to see this - and these flags are the same as all the other in the line-up above.  Earlier yellow flags go the other way, and it appears all flags from pre 2010 go the other way, look at this picture for example, the red and yellow flags are the same way (the reverse of the now standard direction):


Odd then that only the bright yellow and bright blue get two part numbers (there might be others but...).





Both these sets contain 449521, although the parts are quite clearly different.

Fun fact (I guess) I actually own a flipped version of that flag. Was that in sets? If it was then oops, but I own two kinds of that flag mold.